[rhn-users] disk problems

[Richard Lefebvre]

Any one ever got message like that:

May 11 02:40:28 4A:server1.internal kernel: scsi1: Transmission error 
detected
May 11 02:40:28 3A:server1.internal last message repeated 5 times
May 11 02:40:28 6E:server1.internal crond(pam_unix)[29518]: session 
closed for user root
May 11 02:40:29 3A:server1.internal kernel: scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O 
to offline device
May 11 02:40:29 3A:server1.internal last message repeated 5 times
May 11 02:40:29 4A:server1.internal kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 
sda, sector 26466829
May 11 02:40:29 3A:server1.internal kernel: scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O 
to offline device
May 11 02:40:29 4A:server1.internal kernel: SCSI error : <1 0 0 0> 
return code = 0x6000000
May 11 02:40:29 4A:server1.internal kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 
sda, sector 26467341
May 11 02:40:29 3A:server1.internal kernel: scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O 
to offline device
May 11 02:40:31 3A:server1.internal last message repeated 101 times
May 11 02:40:31 2A:server1.internal kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-3): 
ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=1572884, 
block=3145730
May 11 02:40:32 4A:server1.internal kernel: inode_doinit_with_dentry: 
getxattr returned 5 for dev=dm-3 ino=1572884
May 11 02:40:32 3A:server1.internal kernel: scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O 
to offline device
May 11 02:40:59 3A:server1.internal last message repeated 258 times
May 11 02:40:59 4A:server1.internal kernel: printk: 257 messages suppressed.
May 11 02:41:00 3A:server1.internal kernel: Buffer I/O error on device 
dm-3, logical block 3112962
May 11 02:41:00 4A:server1.internal kernel: lost page write due to I/O 
error on dm-3
May 11 02:41:00 3A:server1.internal kernel: Buffer I/O error on device 
dm-3, logical block 3112963
May 11 02:41:00 4A:server1.internal kernel: lost page write due to I/O 
error on dm-3
May 11 02:41:00 3A:server1.internal kernel: scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O 
to offline device
May 11 02:41:00 3A:server1.internal kernel: Buffer I/O error on device 
dm-3, logical block 3113004
May 11 02:41:00 4A:server1.internal kernel: lost page write due to I/O 
error on dm-3
May 11 09:40:01 3A:server1.internal kernel: scsi1 (0:0): rejecting I/O 
to offline device
May 11 09:40:02 2A:server1.internal kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-3) 
in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

The only way I was able to get those was because I have a log server. 
Also the every time I tried to do a command on the server I got:
# df -kl
-bash: /bin/df: Input/output error

The only way to get out of this state was to press the reset button on 
the server. At boot time I made sure that I answered Y to the FSCK 
question. Everything is now OK but I would like to have a better idea of 
what happened.